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Criminal Appeal 4466/98 Honey v. State of Israel IsrSC 56(3) 73 Judge M. Cheshin - part 12

January 22, 2002
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The principle in the creation of a right in favor of a defendant who has been found guilty is entitled by law to sue the state for compensation and indemnity.

  1. If this was the case decades ago, we saw that English law had already reached this recognition at the beginning of the twentieth century – no.-All-Because nowadays, when human rights have risen to the forefront, it is easy-And material since then Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty and the Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation, Israeli law has granted some of those rights the priority status of rights-On. See, for example: Y.Karp "Criminal Law - Janus of Human Rights: Constitutionalization in Light Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty" [41]; A. Barak: "The Constitutionalization of the Judicial System In the wake of the Basic Laws and their implications for criminal law (substantive and procedural)" [42]; M. Alon "Legal-The foundation – anchoring the values of a Jewish and democratic state – issues in criminal law" [43]; E.  Harnon “The Impact of the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty on the Law of Criminal Procedure and Evidence” [44].  After being legal-The foundation will be interpreted as the law that preceded them in their spirit, and in general the law will come a provision Article 80 The Penal Law also-She.  See Parashat Joseph and a Pimp [1], p. 518; Compare Parashat Reich [8], above.  Indeed, legal-The foundation did not intend to change the content of the law that preceded them, but they succeeded in deriving from that nuclear law-Rights that could have been dormant-Something, and now he was awakened to life.  This is the case with basic rights wherever they are, and so it is in the struggle-The interests between them and the interests that stand against them (such as the burden on the state budget, etc.).  Compare: High Court of Justice 4541/94 Miller N. Minister of Defense [27], p. 114; High Court of Justice 205/94 View v. Ministry of Defense [28], at pp. 463-464; A. Barak Commentary on Law, Volume 3, Constitutional Interpretation [39], p. 528.
  2. According to halacha – even though not all-Thus, in fact, my daughters began-In recent years, the law has favorably favored the awarding of costs to defendants who have been found innocent. Thus, for example, in Parashat Gabay [17] (p. 43Reference was made to the guidelines published in England in 1973 (see above, paragraph 23), and Justice S. Levin made the following statement:

I am aware of the tendency of the English courts to recently expand the scope of cases in which the State Treasury will be obligated to pay expenses to a defendant who is acquitted...  As for myself, I do not regret this elaboration and I am prepared to guide myself by the above, taking into account that each and every case should be considered according to its circumstances within the general discretion of the court.

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